Venice Film Festival has revealed the programme for its 81st edition, featuring a 21-strong Competition that includes new films from Todd Phillips, Pedro Almodovar, Luca Guadagino, Pablo Larrain, Brady Corbet and Justin Kurzel.
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The selection was unveiled by festival president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and artistic director Alberto Barbera. It marked Buttafuoco’s first time at the annual press conference, after replacing Roberto Cicutto in October 2023.
Further filmmakers in Competition include Wang Bing, Luis Ortega, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Dag Johan Haugerud, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Walter Salles.
The line-up also includes Jon Watt’s Wolfs, starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, and TV series by acclaimed directors such as Alfonso Cuaron with Disclaimer, Thomas Vinterberg with Families Like Ours by and Joe Wright with M. Il Figlio Del Secolo.
Isabelle Huppert will preside over the jury, which also comprises James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, Julia von Heinz and Zhang Ziyi. Debra Granik will chair the Horizons jury.
The Venice Critics’ Week line-up was announced yesterday, with the Giornate degli Autori titles unveiled last week.
The festival is set to run from August 28 to September 7.
Competition
The Room Next Door (Sp)
Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Battleground (It)
Dir. Gianni Amelio
And Their Children After Them (Fr)
Dirs. Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma
The Brutalist (UK)
Dir. Brady Corbet
The Quiet Son (Fr)
Dirs. Delphine, Muriel Coulin
Vermiglio (It-Fr-Bel)
Dir. Maura Delpero
Sicilian Letters (It-Fr)
Dirs. Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Queer (It-US)
Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Love (Nor)
Dir. Dag Johan Haugerud
April (Geo-Fr-It)
Dir. Dea Kulumbegashvili
The Order (Can)
Dir. Justin Kurzel
Maria (It-Ger)
Dir. Pablo Larrain
Three Friends (Fr)
Dir. Emmanuel Mouret
Kill The Jockey (Arg-Sp)
Dir. Luis Ortega
Joker: Folie A Deux (US)
Dir. Todd Phillips
Babygirl (US)
Dir. Halina Reijn
I’m Still Here (Braz-Fr)
Dir. Walter Salles
Diva Futura (It)
Dir. Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
Harvest (UK-Ger-Gre-Fr-US)
Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari
Youth - Homecoming (Fr-Lux-Neth)
Dir. Wang Bing
Stranger Eyes (Sing-Taiwan-Fr-US)
Dir. Yeo Siew Hua
Out Of Competition - fiction
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (US-UK) - opening film
Dir. Tim Burton
The American Backyard (It) - closing film
Dir. Pupi Avati
Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole (It-Fr)
Dir. Francesca Comencini
Phantosmia (Phil)
Dir. Lav Diaz
Maldoror (Bel-Fr)
Dir. Fabrice du Welz
Broken Rage (Jap)
Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Baby Invasion (US)
Dir. Harmony Korine
Cloud (Jap)
Dir. Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Finally (Fr)
Dir. Claude Lelouch
Wolfs (US)
Dir. Jon Watts
Out Of Competition - non-fiction
Apocalypse In The Tropics (Braz)
Dir. Petra Costa
Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries (It-Switz)
Dirs. Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti
Why War (Fr-Switz)
Dir. Amos Gitai
2073 (UK)
Dir. Asif Kapadia
One To One: John And Yoko (UK)
Dirs. Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards
Separated (US-Mex)
Dir. Errol Morris
Isreal Palestine On Swedish TV 1958-1989 (Swe-Fin-Den)
Dir. Goran Hugo Olsson
Russians At War (Fr-Can)
Dir. Anastasia Trofimova
Things We Said Today (Fr-Rom)
Dir. Andrei Ujica
Riefenstahl (Ger)
Dir. Andres Veiel
Songs Of Slow Burning Earth (Ukr-Den-Swe)
Dir. Olha Zhurba
Out Of Competition - series
Disclaimer (UK-US)
Alfonso Cuaron
The New Years (Sp)
Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Sandra Romero, David Martín de los Santos
Families Like Ours (Den-Fr-Swe-Czech-Bel-Nor-Ger)
Thomas Vinterberg
M - Son Of The Century (It-Fr)
Joe Wright
Horizons
Nonostante (It) - opening film
Dir. Valerio Mastandrea
Quiet Life (Fr-Ger-Swe-Gre-Est-Fin)
Dir. Alexandros Avranas
My Everything (Fr)
Dir. Anne-Sophie Bailly
Aïcha (Tun-Fr-It-Saudi-Qat)
Dir. Mehdi Barsaoui
Happy Holidays (Palestine-Fr-Ger-It-Qat)
Dir. Scandar Copti
Familia (It)
Dir. Francesco Costabile
One Of Those Days When Hemme Dies (Turkey)
Dir. Murat Firatoglu
Familiar Touch (US)
Dir. Sarah Friedland
Marco (Sp)
Dirs. Jon Garano, Aitor Arregi
Carissa (S Afr)
Dirs. Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar
Wishing On A Star (It-Cro-Austria-Slovakia-Czech)
Dir. Peter Kerekes
Mistress Dispeller (China)
Dir. Elizabeth Lo
The New Year That Never Came (Rom-Ser)
Dir. Bogdan Muresanu
Pooja, Sir (Nepal-US-Nor)
Dir. Deepak Rauniyar
Of Dogs And Men (Isr-It)
Dir. Dani Rosenberg
Pavements (US)
Dir. Alex Ross Perry
Happyend (Jap-US)
Dir. Neo Sora
The Ties That Bind Us (Fr-Bel)
Dir. Carine Tardieu
Nineteen (It-UK)
Dir. Giovanni Tortorici
Horizons Extra
September 5 (Ger) - opening film
Dir. Tim Fehlbaum
Vittoria (It)
Dirs. Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
Le Mohican (Fr)
Dir. Frederic Farrucci
Seeking Haven For Mr. Rambo (Egy-Saudi)
Dir. Khaled Mansour
La Storia Del Frank E Della Nina (It-Switz)
Dir. Paola Randi
The Witness (Ger-Austria)
Dir. Nader Saeivar
After Party (Czech)
Dir. Vojtech Strakaty
Edge Of Night (Ger-Turkey)
Dir. Turker Suer
King Ivory (US)
Dir. John Swab
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